06-10-2019, 04:58 AM
I see things in manuscripts every day. Sometimes on a really good day, I see two or three things that I think are significant to the VMS.
But... it takes anywhere from four hours to eight years to write it up because I have to find and explain all the previous research that led up to RECOGNIZING that it was something special, or people simply disregard or disbelieve it. And that takes time, sometimes a lot of time (sometimes it takes months just to gather the different parts together because we can't always know at first if they are connected and we have to backtrack to find them again).
As an example... figuring out that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around is much easier than CONVINCING people that the earth goes around the sun (this took centuries—every medieval western manuscript shows the sun orbiting the earth and anyone who suggested otherwise was in danger of being imprisoned... or worse).
It's not easy to go back through years of research to find all the images and other examples that demonstrate (that basically prove or illustrate) why a specific piece of information matters.
What I've learned from this is that finding things isn't the most difficult part—all you have to do is do the legwork (if it's on the Web, good researchers will eventually find it). Recognizing whether the similarity is superficial or significant is the real challenge and perhaps more important...being able to demonstrate and explain why they are significant so others can recognize it too is the biggest challenge, and the part that takes the most time.
But... it takes anywhere from four hours to eight years to write it up because I have to find and explain all the previous research that led up to RECOGNIZING that it was something special, or people simply disregard or disbelieve it. And that takes time, sometimes a lot of time (sometimes it takes months just to gather the different parts together because we can't always know at first if they are connected and we have to backtrack to find them again).
As an example... figuring out that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around is much easier than CONVINCING people that the earth goes around the sun (this took centuries—every medieval western manuscript shows the sun orbiting the earth and anyone who suggested otherwise was in danger of being imprisoned... or worse).
It's not easy to go back through years of research to find all the images and other examples that demonstrate (that basically prove or illustrate) why a specific piece of information matters.
What I've learned from this is that finding things isn't the most difficult part—all you have to do is do the legwork (if it's on the Web, good researchers will eventually find it). Recognizing whether the similarity is superficial or significant is the real challenge and perhaps more important...being able to demonstrate and explain why they are significant so others can recognize it too is the biggest challenge, and the part that takes the most time.
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